Batman must battle a disfigured district attorney and a disgruntled former employee with help from an amorous psychologist and a young circus acrobat.
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Film Cast:

• Bruce Wayne / Batman: Val Kilmer
• Harvey Dent / Two-Face: Tommy Lee Jones
• Edward Nygma / The Riddler: Jim Carrey
• Dr. Chase Meridian: Nicole Kidman
• Dick Grayson / Robin: Chris O’Donnell
• Alfred Pennyworth: Michael Gough
• Commissioner Gordon: Pat Hingle
• Sugar: Drew Barrymore
• Spice: Debi Mazar
• Gossip Gerty: Elizabeth Sanders
• Dr. Burton: René Auberjonois
• Bank Guard: Joe Grifasi
• Male Newscaster: Philip Moon
• Female Newscaster: Jessica Tuck
• Crime Boss Moroni: Dennis Paladino
• Gang Leader: Don Wilson
• Margaret: Kimberly Scott
• Martha Wayne: Eileen Seeley
• Executive: Michael Paul Chan
• Assistant #2: Jon Favreau
• Electronic Store Owner: Bob Zmuda
• Teenage Girl: Rebecca Budig
• Socialite: Ria Coyne
• Young Bruce Wayne: Ramsey Ellis
• Trapeze Act: Noby Arden
• Girl on Corner #1: Maxine Jones
• Girl on Corner #2: Terry Ellis
• Girl on Corner #3: Cindy Herron
• Girl on Corner #4: Dawn Robinson
• Fred Stickley (uncredited): Ed Begley Jr.
• Sen. Patrick Leahy (uncredited): Patrick Leahy
• Harvey’s Thug: Jim Palmer
• The Mayor: George Wallace
• Guest (uncredited): George Cheung
• Harvey’s Thug: Deron McBee
• Harvey’s Thug: Brad Martin

Film Crew:

• Sound Designer: Lance Brown
• Producer: Tim Burton
• Casting: Mali Finn
• Costume Design: Bob Ringwood
• Characters: Bob Kane
• Art Direction: Joseph P. Lucky
• Camera Operator: Michael A. Jones
• Visual Effects Supervisor: Andrew Adamson
• Director: Joel Schumacher
• Story: Lee Batchler
• Story: Janet Scott Batchler
• Screenplay: Akiva Goldsman
• Producer: Peter Macgregor-Scott
• Original Music Composer: Elliot Goldenthal
• Director of Photography: Stephen Goldblatt
• Editor: Mark Stevens
• Editor: Dennis Virkler
• Production Design: Barbara Ling
• Set Decoration: Cricket Rowland
• Executive Producer: Michael Uslan
• Executive Producer: Benjamin Melniker
• Music Editor: Zigmund Gron
• Music Programmer: Michael Higham
• Visual Effects Art Director: James Hegedus
• Animation Supervisor: Raman Hui
• Underwater Director of Photography: Conrad E. Palmisano
• Art Direction: Christopher Burian-Mohr
• Makeup Artist: Rick Baker
• Special Effects Coordinator: Thomas L. Fisher
• Assistant Editor: Adam Boome
• Visual Effects Supervisor: John Dykstra
• Assistant Art Director: Chas. Butcher
• Casting Associate: Emily Schweber
• Technical Advisor: Bob Yerkes
• First Assistant Director: William M. Elvin
• Digital Compositors: Joni Jacobson
• Co-Producer: Kevin J. Messick
• Stunts: Jennifer Caputo
• Stunts: Julie Michaels
• Digital Effects Producer: Teresa Cheng
• Second Unit Director: David Hogan
• Set Decoration: Elaine O’Donnell
• ADR Mixer: Troy Porter
• Stunts: Danielle Burgio
• Transportation Coordinator: Craig Pinkard
• Dialect Coach: Carla Meyer
• Stunt Double: Dana Hee
• Stunt Double: Brad Martin
• Stunts: Donna Keegan
• Second Second Assistant Director: Molly M. Mayeux
• Makeup Artist: Ve Neill
• Music Score Producer: Matthias Gohl
• Stunt Double: Mitch Gaylord
• Stunts: G. A. Aguilar
• Associate Producer: Mitchell E. Dauterive
• Production Manager: Amy Harrington
• Key Costumer: Dawn Y. Line
• Hairstylist: Barbara Lorenz
• Property Master: Brad Einhorn
• Additional Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Kevin E. Carpenter
• Foley Artist: Hilda Hodges
• Boom Operator: Carl Fischer
• Leadman: Chuck McSorley
• Costume Design: Ingrid Ferrin
• Still Photographer: Ralph Nelson Jr.
• Visual Effects Editor: Miller Drake
• Construction Coordinator: Greg John Callas
• Sculptor: Yarek Alfer
• Key Hair Stylist: Yolanda Toussieng
• Location Manager: Laura Sode-Matteson
• Unit Publicist: Michael Singer
• ADR Editor: Zack Davis
• Sound Effects Editor: Gordon Ecker
• Supervising Dialogue Editor: Becky Sullivan
• Conductor: Jonathan Sheffer
• Production Accountant: Jackie Brady Baugh
• Visual Effects Producer: C. Marie Davis
• Supervising Sound Editor: John Leveque
• Costumer: Brenda Donoho
• Digital Effects Supervisor: Kathy White
• Foley Recordist: Carolyn Tapp
• Dolby Consultant: Douglas Greenfield
• Key Set Costumer: Myron Baker
• Visual Effects Supervisor: Eric Durst
• Visual Effects Assistant Editor: Kate Crossley
• Stunts: Mike Smith
• Visual Effects Coordinator: David Wallace Allen
• Systems Administrators & Support: Kevin Andrew Smith
• Supervising Music Editor: Christopher Brooks
• Orchestrator: Robert Elhai
• Foley Mixer: Mary Jo Lang
• Costume Coordinator: Randy Gardell
• Head Carpenter: Frank Didio
• Assistant Chief Lighting Technician: Mike Amorelli
• Makeup Artist: Wade Daily
• Assistant Camera: Wayne Baker
• Costume Supervisor: Elaine Maser
• Dialogue Editor: Sukey Fontelieu
• Production Sound Mixer: Petur Hliddal
• Music Consultant: Art Ford
• Storyboard: Chris Buchinsky
• Video Assist Operator: Martin Weight
• Propmaker: Tony Chavez
• Scenic Artist: Michael Denering
• Makeup Effects: David LeRoy Anderson
• Stunts: Dana Dru Evenson
• Second Assistant Director: Alan Edmisten
• Production Illustrator: James Carson
• Payroll Accountant: Richard Castro
• Color Timer: Bob Putynkowski
• Assistant Location Manager: Valerie Y.O. Kim
• Armorer: Harry Lu
• Utility Stunts: Tony Angelotti
• Foley Editor: Michael Dressel
• Technical Supervisor: Philippe Gluckman
• Stunts: Diana Cuevas
• Chief Lighting Technician: James M. McEwen
• Set Designer: James R. Bayliss
• Visual Effects Supervisor: Richard Chuang
• Negative Cutter: Mo Henry
• First Assistant Camera: Robert Heine
• Location Scout: Adam Baer
• Production Coordinator: Tripp Hudson
• Title Designer: Anthony Goldschmidt
• Craft Service: Nancy Mott
• Lighting Technician: Billy Craft
• Dolly Grip: Antonio V. Garrido
• Driver: David Diaz
• Stunts: Anita Hart
• Visual Effects Supervisor: Boyd Shermis
• Transportation Captain: Dick Johnson
• Executive In Charge Of Production: James W. Kristoff
• Art Department Coordinator: Jill DuDeck
• Painter: Sarah Ray
• Grip: Jim Gordon
• Set Dressing Artist: Kinney Booker
• CG Supervisor: Terrence Masson
• Set Medic: Anna Baltimore
• Key Set Production Assistant: David Lanphier Jr.
• Unit Production Manager: Ralph Burris
• Electrician: Jerry D. Knight
• Lighting Supervisor: Jean M. Cunningham
• Assistant Sound Editor: Keith Bewick
• Music Supervisor: Jolene Cherry
• Stunts: Dana Bertolette
• Special Effects Technician: Donald Krause
• Stunts: Barbara Anne Klein
• Stunts: Cynthia J. Blessington
• First Assistant Accountant: Katie Zaslaw
• Project Manager: Stephen Sobisky
• Second Assistant Camera: Chris Holt
• Location Assistant: Will Benson
• Assistant Makeup Artist: Buffy Zerefski
• ADR Recordist: Scott Houle
• Supervising ADR Editor: Fred Stafford
• VFX Director of Photography: Tim Angulo
• Production Assistant: Jack Holland
• Additional Second Assistant Director: Eric Oliver
• Assistant Property Master: Stephen Andrew Schwartz
• Special Effects Assistant: Robert W. King
• VFX Artist: Tamara Waters
• Visual Effects Camera: James Balsam
• Visual Effects Compositor: Peter Sternlicht
• Best Boy Grip: Hal Nelson
• Effects Supervisor: Don Baker
• Visual Effects Supervisor: David Stump
• Stunts: Leah Creed

Movie Reviews:

• John Chard: A different direction brings differing results.

  Batman takes on a new side kick as he fights to keep Gotham City out of the clutches of Two-Face and The Riddler.

  “No thanks, I’ll get drive-thru”

  Thus these be the first words out of Val Kilmer’s incarnation of Batman and thus setting the standard for what Joel Schumacher’s two Batman movies would be like. Gone is the dark undertone from Tim Burton’s visions, and the tight action sequences that marked Burton’s debut out as a genuine genre piece of work, in their place comes sexy campery and ropey action set pieces. The casting of both Val Kilmer as Batman and Chris O’Donnell as Robin is a big mistake, Kilmer easily being the most boring actor to don the suit out of all of them, whilst O’Donnell simply can’t act outside of Robin’s cartoonery bravado. Nicole Kidman looks positively gorgeous as Chase Meridian, but that’s all that is brought to the party, it’s a waste of the very talented Kidman’s ability and a waste of the audience’s time.

  It’s not all bad though, a comic book adaptation is only as good as its villains, and here we get a perfectly cast Jim Carrey as The Riddler, and a wildly over the top Tommy Lee Jones as Two-Face. Carrey steals every scene he is in, it’s almost too much, but as maniacal and exuberant as it is, it is the film’s highlight and actually the film’s saving grace (Tommy Lee Jones was reportedly unhappy from having his thunder stolen in the movie by Carrey). The script does work enough to make the story accessible to all ages, and there are enough crash bangs and wallops to entertain in that brain left at the door kind of way.

  This was the biggest hit of 1995, so the paying public lapped it up and paved the way for another Schumacher film in the franchise, but with all that star power wasted, and nipples on the rubber suits, it’s hard to see now why it was so popular back then. 5/10

• Gimly: There are some great **things** in _Batman Forever_. Val Kilmer I think cops a bit too much flak for his go in the cape & cowl, he’s certainly no sort of definitive Batman but I thought he did a fine job. The city has a crazy cool design, the Batmobile is updated in a wholly original way, and that neon street gang is some of the coolest shit I’ve ever seen put to screen. But this a **bad** movie. Burton might not have had a 100% source-material-faithful interpretation of the character, but it took Joel Schumacher (who usually I’m a big fan of) to ruin _Batman_ altogether.

  _Final rating:★★ – Had some things that appeal to me, but a poor finished product._